Essentials
Summary
Transfers the user's major status effect to the target.
Damage Dealt
Stats
- Power
- — (no damage)
- Accuracy
- 90%
- PP
- 10, up to 16 with
PP Up - Target
- Selected Pokémon
- Effect chance
- n/a
- Priority
- 0 (normal)
Flags
- Makes contact
- Has a charging turn
- Must recharge
- Blocked by Detect and Protect
- Reflectable
- Snatchable
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Copied by Mirror Move
A Pokémon targeted by this move can use Mirror Move to copy it.
- Punch-based
- Sound-based
- Unusable during Gravity
- Defrosts when used
- Targets opposite side in triples
- Heals
- Ignores Substitute
Machines

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Not a TM

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Not a TM
Effect
If the user has a major status effect and the target does not, the user's status is transferred to the target.
Meta
This reflects how the games treat moves and may be somewhat idealistic.
Flavor
Flavor Text

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Using its psychic power of suggestion, the user transfers its status problems to the target.

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Using its psychic power of suggestion, the user transfers its status problems to the target.
Foreign Names
- Italian

- Psicotrasfer
- French

- Échange Psy
- Spanish

- Psico-cambio
- German

- Psybann
- Czech

- Psychopřesun
- Japanese

- サイコシフト (saikoshifuto)
Contests
Super Contest
- Type

- Appeal
- Flavor text
- Raises the score if the Voltage is low.
- Use after
- None
- Use before
- None
Similar moves
No other moves have the same effect as Psycho Shift.
Pokémon
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Pokémon | Type | Ability | Gender | Egg Group | HP | Atk | Def | SpA | SpD | Spd | Total | |
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| Level up: Learned when a Pokémon reaches a certain level. | ||||||||||||||
| 41 | 49 | Hoothoot |
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Insomnia
Keen Eye Tinted Lens |
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Flying | 60 | 30 | 30 | 36 | 56 | 50 | 262 | |
| 47 | 57 | Noctowl |
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Insomnia
Keen Eye Tinted Lens |
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Flying | 100 | 50 | 50 | 76 | 96 | 70 | 442 | |
| 33 | 33 | Natu |
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Synchronize
Early Bird Magic Bounce |
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Flying | 40 | 50 | 45 | 70 | 45 | 70 | 320 | |
| 37 | 37 | Xatu |
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Synchronize
Early Bird Magic Bounce |
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Flying | 65 | 75 | 70 | 95 | 70 | 95 | 470 | |
| 50 | 50 | Latias |
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Levitate | ![]() |
Undiscovered | 80 | 80 | 90 | 110 | 130 | 110 | 600 | |
| 50 | 50 | Latios |
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Levitate | ![]() |
Undiscovered | 80 | 90 | 80 | 130 | 110 | 110 | 600 | |
| 57 | 57 | Normal Deoxys |
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Pressure | ![]() |
Undiscovered | 50 | 150 | 50 | 150 | 50 | 150 | 600 | |
| 57 | 57 | Attack Deoxys |
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Pressure | ![]() |
Undiscovered | 50 | 180 | 20 | 180 | 20 | 150 | 600 | |
| 57 | 57 | Defense Deoxys |
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Pressure | ![]() |
Undiscovered | 50 | 70 | 160 | 70 | 160 | 90 | 600 | |
| 57 | 57 | Speed Deoxys |
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Pressure | ![]() |
Undiscovered | 50 | 95 | 90 | 95 | 90 | 180 | 600 | |
| 75 | 75 | Cresselia |
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Levitate | ![]() |
Undiscovered | 120 | 70 | 120 | 75 | 130 | 85 | 600 | |
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Pokémon | Type | Ability | Gender | Egg Group | HP | Atk | Def | SpA | SpD | Spd | Total | |
| Egg: Appears on a newly-hatched Pokémon, if the father had the same move. | ||||||||||||||
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Togepi |
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Hustle
Serene Grace Super Luck |
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Undiscovered | 35 | 20 | 65 | 40 | 65 | 20 | 245 | |
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Murkrow |
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Insomnia
Super Luck Prankster |
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Flying | 60 | 85 | 42 | 85 | 42 | 91 | 405 | |
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Sigilyph |
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Wonder Skin
Magic Guard Tinted Lens |
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Flying | 72 | 58 | 80 | 103 | 80 | 97 | 490 | ||























